Eddie Daniels plays Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622

[@klarinetta]

wowww I've heard billion versions of this concert but what a great and inspiering performance. I'm hearing aspects of this concert I've never heard before.

[@budimirzvolanek6234]

Agree 100%, of course by an all-time virtuoso clarinetist with heart / jazz!

[@BennyGoodman1977]

Great

[@BennyGoodman1977]

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[@MrHestichs]

The bassoons in this performance are superb!

[@dominicusrintowahjuarianto5810]

since in 1986, I start to first time to practical, play and studies of Clarinet base Mr. Eddie Daniel, because I saw him on his tour in Indonesia. Mr. Eddie Daniel is my inspiration, his not maestro but he is a clarinet monster...thaks a lot...may God bless you always.

[@pianofever8586]

So beautiful. I loved the part at 17:00. It's in my easy classical book of excerpts for piano. It really touches one's heart. I think my playing will improve now. Thank you.

[@KasiresHK47]

I just love Eddie Daniels.

[@robertlafnear7034]

Went to a concert he played years ago... best I've ever heard.... and he said at the end he was missing some of the sheets of music.

[@vovkin1001]

Amazingly perfect in both worlds. And the audience loves it. So universal musician.

[@surachaik.t6078]

I love this version that’s very impressive and clearly dynamic.

[@bryanswenson1452]

Very nice control. Congratulations Mr. Daniels on a grand performance. Perfect tempo. Just wonderful.

[@cymbollixreborn2955]

My dad was 1st Clarinet ... R.M.B. in the 60s under Lieut Colonel F. Vivian Dunn C.V.O. O.B.E F.R.A.M. .R.M he was a good clarinet player my dad he died recently and I've bee trying to pick it up... But I saw him many times playing like this and it just makes me cry seeing this beauty. My dad. Looked allot like Eddie funnily.

[@albiondi4078]

NOT EASY TO DO WHAT EDDIE IS DOING HERE. WHEN YOU ARE A JAZZ MUSICIAN AS EDDIE IS AND YOU PLAY CLASSICAL YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY BECOME ANOTHER PLAYER AND PERSON ENTIRELY. I DON'T KNOW IF A NON MUSICIAN CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEAN. BENNY GOODMAN AND WYNTON MARSALLIS WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT AND NOW EDDIE DANIELS. I TIP MY HAT TO YOU EDDIE. GREAT JOB! FELLOW CLARINETIST AB

[@sneddypie]

why caps, but yes

[@albiondi4078]

@@sneddypie caps so i can see

[@binodsingh4929]

Allgero 0:54 Adagio 12:58 Allgero 19:54 Encore 29:43

[@bobbly7132]

Best and most prominent clarinetists who play both jazz and classical: Goodman and Daniels. I love this performance of Eddie's in particular--both parts!

[@jamesrawlins735]

As much as I love Benny Goodman (I played clarinet in high school but became so discouraged when I heard him play that I almost quit) - and I do think he's the greatest clarinetist from Big Band/Swing, I actually think Daniels is a better classical player than Goodman. If I remember the critics were rather unkind towards Goodman when he played this concerto.

[@Carsonsaxplayer]

I’m just leaving a comment because I want to somehow involve myself with this greatness….

[@budimirzvolanek6234]

Eddie "the Great" Daniels scores high on this one! Super technique and dynamics - the slow movement especially full of feeling and musicality, including his own improvised cadenza - THAT's jazz inside Eddie (as always). And of course the solo improv added after the end, Eddie, you are the only one! Heard you for the 1st time at the Chicago ICA ClarinetFest 1994 and was amazed at your improvs including the Mozart cvlar. quintet (w/Mike Garson at the piano)! Been a fan ever since, and your Vivaldi 5 Seasons are out of this world. Your Czech Bohemian fan clarinetist for life ...

[@robd1889]

Full of joy and delightful to listen to. Perfect.

[@johnries5593]

This is not the clarinet that Mozart had in mind, but I think he would have been overjoyed if one had been sent to him from the future. Reproductions of ancient music have their place, but I really don't think there is anything wrong with performing the works of centuries past on modern instruments.

[@mamacordella]

wunderschoene musik, also das beste, so toll die Klarinette gespielt, einfach sagenhart. Vielen Dank. Kann ich den ganzen Tag dazu hoeren und macht mir das leben schoener.

[@normankamarudin6602]

Eddie is the best..ilove classical music cos theres lot musical terms and modulation..real music

[@101mable]

simply wonderful this has just made my day Thank you Thank you and Thank you

[@LOFTmusicChannel]

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[@chrisk8187]

Daniels Mozart video Excellent performance and interpretation! I was not aware of your doing "straight" repertoire. And, as earlier comments mentioned, you were hardly "showing off" (ie. Martin Frost). Besides, my understanding was that embellishments were common from early on. Really enjoyed it! Thank you.

[@9uweeoncbmd890]

I'm so glad to see other recordings of this same concerto have the almost excessive sound of air pressure being pushed by the clarinetist when you listening closely to the soloist's sound. I've just recently recorded this concerto live and I was so terrified of how much air sound there was coming from the clarinetist when I listened back at a studio, but it seems that almost all recordings have it.

[@mmbmbmbmb]

Nice & light. I dare say Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would have liked this rendition. And ~ the encore ... well , the applause speaks for itself. Excellent performance on an absolutely great instrument!

[@jnstonbely5215]

I wholeheartedly Agree. Is Mr.Daniels playing an alto clarinet ?

[@hotice8885]

@@jnstonbely5215 , no, this this not an alto clarinet. He is playing a soprano clarinet pitched in concert "A," rather than the more common "Concert B-flat" clarinet. Cheers!

[@hanslange2816]

Hermosa velada. Eddy ha tocado celestialmente

[@michelestelluto2604]

Questa è una libera interpretazione di Mozart ma assolutamente inverosimile. Non si può suonare Mozart così, con tutto il rispetto e la stima per Eddie.

[@Clarinet69]

Non sai niente. Musica non è morta. Deve essere viva e interessante. Si può suonare qualsiasi cosa come si vuole

[@iz2ced]

In cosa sbaglia?

[@smillley21]

Recording quality is poor but WOW!! What a version! The clarinet soloist is absolutly fantastic! The nuances and articulation are far better than the versions I knew.

[@marcusdickerson3016]

You should review the new LIBRE clarinet ligature sold on ebay

[@binodsingh4929]

Bravo. Eddie💐👏🏽👏🏽🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@Rvo26]

The first Cadenza felt a little over done to me, but wow, what an interesting and inspiring interpretation of this piece!

[@水村明]

thank you so much from Japan

[@sharafgafurov1716]

на сколько я помню, этот кларнетист вообще то джазовый музыкант. Но исполнение моцарта потрясающее

[@fragocito58]

Extraordinary Interpretation

[@tpark89]

Just incredible.

[@mathersdavid5113]

Better tone and articulation than Goodman's version I think. Great performance. That tempo in Movement 1 takes no prisoners either!

[@jamesrawlins735]

From what I remember reading, the critics were very unkind towards Goodman's performance of the Mozart.

[@valentingolomoz9663]

Fenomen.Toată admirația.

[@fransvanvlem7451]

Love it

[@gerrycappuccio4186]

Great version by Eddie Daniels !

[@estebanfavela5461]

MAGNIFICO CLARINETISTA.............

[@fattoumabidi6990]

Superbe.

[@BennyGoodman1977]

He played an Leblanc Concerto. Great Model

[@jamesrawlins735]

For some reason, Eddie Daniels switched over to Backun several years ago. In fact, he is a Backun artist and has a line of mouthpieces. It's too bad because I really love Leblancs.

[@neilmak]

To clarify: Daniels played a Leblanc Concerto in earlier years, Goodman played Selmer for a while (P series?). Pete Fountain was probably the best known Leblanc player - the company designed a high end model with gold-plated keys and named it after Pete...

[@hazlitt1]

I didn’t know Tom Selleck played the clarinet!

[@DT-622]

I didn’t know Jay Leno conducted!

[@hazlitt1]

@@DT-622 😂😂😂

[@alvarolopez7346]

A great performance!

[@flipalka1]

And a nice guy besides. Ran into him when I was picking up my alto sax, having had it overhauled. He struck up the conversation (I wouldn't have intruded).

[@WilfriedBerk]

Mozart und 29:43 Encore kamen gut an ... es lebe die Vielseitigkeit !

[@edwarddesenne6153]

Surprisingly well played by a non classical specialist but felt he could sustain longer breath duration when playing quieter lower and higher notes, playing full value of notes before cutting of final notes of phrases so abruptly.

[@BennyGoodman1977]

WOOOW

[@eduardob197]

woooow¡ esto es hermoso y forma en la que interpreta en tema es perfecta

[@Billybillybillyrocking]

Why is Tom Selleck killing it on the clarinet??

[@hotice8885]

Lol--He DOES look like Tom!

[@ronniewoodsbellmontsounds7045]

My god , that I should aspire to such inimitable heights

[@arnoldwegstern5124]

Extremely nice. But think of the future talents and one of them is Martin Schmidt-Hahn on clarinet !!

[@zipherdias420]

My friend was watching this with me and he was like "look at all of em talking and stuff at the beginning, how unprofessional" I just looked at him and said "they are musicians, not robots...its not like they are playing for the queen or anything".

[@saxfactor11]

The Great Maestro Daniels! but the standard is VLADIMIR SOKOLOV ...probably forever.

[@binodsingh4929]

3:35-3:40

[@binodsingh4929]

Allgero 0 :54

[@mihaliprefti2507]

I think it is an A clarinet.

[@hotice8885]

Indeed, it is an A clarinet. Cheers!

[@jamesrawlins735]

Yes it is. I think that there are a few notes that are lower than what the E can produce

[@hollymunfordbloe4744]

Nice

[@ernstschliephake522]

Please correct: this is MUNICH SYMPHONY playing: MÜNCHNER SYMPONIKER, not Munich Philharmonic.

[@binodsingh4929]

And. Now. Ladies. And. Gents. You. Have. To. Know. About. Your. Things. And. Enjoy.your. MEAL. WHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎻🎻👏🏽🎻👏🏽💐👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@dennisdougherty7538]

Great performance Maestro Daniels! It's such a "worn-out" concerto that I wish I could hear you improvise in your tasteful style to give it a little freshness. Maybe next time, eh? But then some stiff-ass purist would probably complain and spoil the whole thing.

[@KasiresHK47]

couldn't agree more with you on everything you said

[@曾奇逸]

Dennis Dougherty

[@zebra3stripes]

Is he playing a regular (non-basset) clarinet in A? How many times in the piece are notes written below the range of the regular clarinet?

[@abhaybathula7878]

Yep, that's a normal A clarinet. There are quite a few instances in the whole concerto (in every movement) that go below the normal lowest note of E - though I don't recall exactly how many times.

[@jerrykitich3318]

I had a gorgeous girl in university tell me she didn't care for the sound of the clarinet. Wonder what ever happened to her, after that?

[@zacworld2061]

I think she married Donald Trump...

[@Barbapippo]

Married a clarinet player

[@Clarinet69]

She probably got drunk at a party and had sex with a guy, but called it rape the next morning.

[@jazldazl9193]

Just wow!

[@sandplus5048]

This is performed at lighting speed !!!! Arngunnur Arnadóttir has the speed I like, but that’s personal preference. To each his own.

[@notallgarbage]

I prefer Arngunnur's performance...

[@imuawarriors]

his hands look so big on the clarinet... master musician nonetheless....

[@mihaliprefti2507]

Is this a bb clarinet?

[@hotice8885]

No--this is an A clarinet.

[@吉羽倖輝]

29:43 What is the title of this song？

[@VirtualStorefronts]

My guess is that is straight jazz improvisation

[@weirungtseng8753]

I am just an amateurish listener. I wonder if I am too rigid about evenness between notes, feeling that at about 4:25 the sequences and the following running up and down are somehow on the verge of losing control. Pardon my ignorance and poor English.

[@notallgarbage]

I feel too this part is not clean... at 5:42 too... and a few other places.... not clean...

[@hotice8885]

@@notallgarbage It sounded to me that Eddie was just encountering the struggle that exists between the _rhythmic needs_ that exist in classical music, compared to the needs that are in jazz music. By contrast, classical players usually sound insipid and stiff when playing jazz, because of their foundation in rhytmic concepts. It is almost impossible for any player to truly bridge the two different genres, effectively speaking properly in both.

[@hotice8885]

On second thought, I listened to 4:25 again. In THAT example, Eddie simply rushed a few of those notes, leading to the "unclean" sound you heard. Of course, they were notes played by the dreaded "throat keys" of the clarinet, which are notoriously difficult to evenly navigate!

[@LorenzoMaggioreni-hp4bv]

Niente di nuovo ne di particolare ,come uno di 4 anno neanche di punta

[@antoniocarlosmoreira4714]

-- Solista "inventor"; com um imaturo improviso compromete a seriedade do segundo movimento!... Lamentável.

[@danielbardelli9621]

Mas ele é o Eddie Daniels ;-; ele pode, nós não ;-;

[@silaswp]

Pra que serve a cadência? Pra mostrar a virtuosismo do músico. Quem é melhor que ele no clarinete atualmente

[@alohaclarinet5016]

I just tossed my clarinet out the second floor bedroom window but the screen bounced it back and the bell hit me in the face.

[@sneddypie]

bruh

[@hotice8885]

Lol

[@michelhugonnot9718]

interpretation tout a fait ordinaire

[@notallgarbage]

Je suis d'accord

[@laikasfreund8272]

Was für Spinner hier meinen, etwas von Musik zu verstehen... Es gefällt oder gefällt nicht...

[@mhavenn]

didnt know donald trump could conduct

[@fernie51296]

michael haken that conductor is far too thin to be the Donald.

[@IiIiIiIOnTop]

rofl

[@winsonching8275]

23:57 a note goes wrong

[@paulstruck7169]

Один вопрос - зачем джазовому исполнителю пытаться играть Моцарта? Гудман ужасно играл этот концерт. Дэниелс играет лучше Гудмана, но это не академическое исполнение, а просто баловства ради.

[@hotice8885]

Maybe the jazz players were motivated to try to play Mozart by *appreciation* for the music.

[@ronniewoodsbellmontsounds7045]

Julian Bliss was performing this when he was fourteen years old .its not a difficult piece, but sounds lmpressive.

[@markovelikonja5399]

Like most Mozart, it's not that hard technically. But you'll still spend a lifetime getting it right.

[@notallgarbage]

sorry, not the best performance... He needs the score, which is a sign he has not incorporated the piece within himself, and his performance shows this... He has been irregular in rythmn on a few occasions... his sound feels weak on occasions I only give him 8.75/10 for this... I like the clarity of his articulations... and.. is it me, or he is a bit flat?

[@erica8950]

I agree

[@augustomachete1715]

Other than the "show off" aspects of this performance, the playing was superb.

[@johnhippisley9106]

Augustini Diaz thats kinda what solos are for

[@joeenglert]

well..it's better than Benny Goodmans' ...that's about it